02-11-2013, 12:58 PM | #46 |
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Yes but they have to pay the performers and pay bills for the food and drink in particular. With stores it's different as they aren't limited in what they sell as much as a club would be. Also how many clubs have a steak for $800.00 + bucks? Stores can have a wide variety of products at different prices & bookstores are like that as well in that they have different prices for hard cover and paperback and sometimes have other things like coffee for sale so you can read and have coffee at the same time. Presumably after having purchased the book you read of course. And clerks in stores have a set salary and working hours so things aren't as expensive as if they were having different acts (performers) like in a club.
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The greatest entertainment a bar can offer is when a tipsy young nubile woman scrambles up on the bar itself and dances and maybe even plays at striptease. Men want to be in places like that. Men will travel far and pay much to be in places like that. Therefore women get in free at various times or all times. Men are charged all the time. Likewise the bar may offer free drinks at certain times but only certain fruity, sweet drinks with dumb names. Women love these drinks and they are free. A real man couldn't drink one, or wouldn't be seen drinking one. Hawkers may go out to the streets around the bar and give out complimentary passes to the type people they want to come to the bar. Or college kids might get passes at certain times. Patrons that spend a lot of money might get a complimentary pass for next time. So much about bars. The real question here is what has been the experience of bookstores that charge browsing fees. Is traffic up? Are sales up. |
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02-11-2013, 01:05 PM | #48 |
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Aaah..Now do that in a bookstore and I might pay for the entry
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02-11-2013, 01:23 PM | #49 |
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Hmm...forget Starbucks. Maybe bookstores should include a Hooters...there is some real opportunity here for creative ways to make a showroom profitable in the face of Internet competition...
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02-11-2013, 01:33 PM | #51 |
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Unfortunately, there isn't a book store in the world that's going to give me meaningful advice on what books to buy, and I doubt I'm unique. |
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02-11-2013, 01:41 PM | #55 | |
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So no, I don't see the process as dishonest. Businesses need to look at what they're doing wrong. I've heard a theory about the reckoning happening with electronic retailers in Canada. For the non-Canucks: big box stores like Future Shop and Best Buy are shutting down stores, while small retailers like The Source (nee Radio Shack) are expanding. Now the theory goes that the big box stores are too big to sustain themselves due to rent and staffing costs. In other words, they are dinosaurs who could only exist while the food supply was plentiful. But it isn't the case anymore, so they are suffering while other businesses are taking their place (both online and brick and mortar). |
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I am all for it. Seen WAY to many people sitting on the freaking floor reading a book, then put it back when they are done.
And now it is all grubby and dirty and yucky. Keep the riff-raff out I say! |
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I visited my uncle in Canada a few years back. On a Sunday we went to his local bookstore and sat in comfortable chairs reading their books and drinking coffee. When we left, he folded the corner of the page he was on down and replaced the book. I thought that was a bit cheeky! |
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02-11-2013, 02:09 PM | #59 | |
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Am I acting "dishonestly" when I browse Amazon's reviews but then buy an ebook at Kobo's store because I can use a discount code? Does this apply between physical stores? Is it morally wrong for me to test drive a car at one dealership and then buy the same type of car from another dealership that offers me a better price? Or am I morally obligated to spend more money at the store I initially browsed at? If bookstores can't compete for the finite dollars of sophisticated customers, then that's too bad for them but it's not dishonest, unethical or immoral. Bookstore don't need this HarryT's past-looking, protectionist sentiment, they need to offer products and services that customers actually want to buy from them. Equating a personal choice to buy from a physical store to proper moral conduct marks a notable low-point in arguments on Mobileread. I can barely express my incredulity at the idea that supporting a failing business model is the "moral" path. Last edited by Ninjalawyer; 02-11-2013 at 02:15 PM. |
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If I'm going to pay full price for a book, it had better be brand spanking new... |
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